philanderer

Example Sentences

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Events come to a head and the skillfully written climax is so distant and chilly that it speaks to a waning of interest in the figure of the philanderer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Danny Bailey, on the other hand, may be a bit of a philanderer and a con artist, but he hasn’t done anything really bad.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2021

Also there is Jackson’s understandable disdain for the “screeching girls,” as she called the students at Bennington, the women’s college in Vermont where Hyman, a perennial philanderer, taught.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021

But that same search in Chinese comes up with a very different portrait: Sheng Xue is a fraud, a thief, a traitor and a serial philanderer.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2019

A man ... and a philanderer, flashed across Mortimer’s brain like fire, contrasting the two with fierce contempt for himself.

From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Blackwood, Algernon